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I bought this game for our Wii because my wife recalled on multiple occasions the pleasure of playing it on a coin-operated arcade machine. Now, my expectations weren't terribly high, despite well over a decade for technology to improve.
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Mad Dog McCree
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| Name: Mad Dog McCree Manufacturer: American Laser Games Year: 1990 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Stereo (two channel) Cabinet Styles:
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Mad Dog McCree DescriptionMad Dog McCree was produced by American Laser Games in 1990. American Laser Games released 13 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1990. Other machines made by American Laser Games during the time period Mad Dog McCree was produced include Who Shot Johnny Rock, Space Pirates, Gallagher, Mad Dog II - The Lost Gold, and Crime Patrol. Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Game PlayWARNING: THIS SECTION CONTAINS SERIOUS SPOILERS!In this game, your gun is a six-shooter that must be pointed downwards in order to be reloaded. Throughout the game, if you see a cow skull or spitoon, shoot those items to receive extra bullets. At the beginning of the game, there is a target practice session where you attempt to shoot up to five beer bottles on a wooden fence. Afterwards, as you head into town, an old prospector comes up to you and asks you for your help. He informs you that Mad Dog and his gang have taken over the town, the mayor and his daughter have been taken hostage at Mad Dog's hideout and the sheriff is locked up in his own jail. A couple of outlaws then try to shoot the informant before he can tell you more, but if you shoot them before they kill the prospector, he will tell you where to find the jail keys. If the prospector dies, however, you will have to find out for yourself. Next, you get to choose which destination you want to go to by shooting it; select either the corral, the bank, the saloon or the sheriff's office. Each time you go to one of those destinations, you must shoot the outlaws but not the townspeople. For every innocent by-stander that is hit, a life will be deducted for it. The corral is perhaps the most difficult destination in town. When you get past the bank, a young boy will warn you about what to do if you get to Mad Dog's hideout. Somtimes he will warn you not to approach from the front, but sometimes he will warn you not to approach from the rear, and you will have to remember that. When you get to the saloon, you will find One-Eyed Jack and a few others of Mad Dog's henchmen. They will glare at you and start shooting at you and one of them will even try to shoot the bartender. After shooting all of them, if the bartender is killed, a barmaid will give you the keys, but if you save the bartender from being shot, he will give you the keys and he will also warn you that Mad Dog wears a bullet-proof vest, so you will have to remember to shoot Mad Dog in the head instead of the chest. When you go to the sheriff's office, be sure you have the keys. If you go there without the keys, you will not be able to free the sheriff and you will be ambushed by outlaws as you attempt to leave. If you have the keys you can free the sheriff and he will help you rid the town of the other outlaws, but will be fatally wounded. Before the sheriff dies, he will inform you that the map to the hideout is in the gold mine, but you must talk to the prospector first. After you have successfully made it past all four destinations in town, you will have a choice to either go to the prospector, the mine or the hideout. When you go to the prospector, he will be tied up to a pile of dynamite and Mad Dog will lite the fuse with a cigar, you must shoot the fuse and save the prospector before the dynamite explodes. Next, the prospector will inform you that the mine is booby-trapped for claim jumpers and you must shoot the lantern and either the pitchfork, the griddle, the pick-axe, the gold mining pan or the 'Shaft #1' sign in order to enter the mine and get the map. When you go to the mine, you will get another target practice round to shoot beer bottles thrown into the air. Next, you choose to go to the hideout and then you will see a post with two arrows on it leading in two different directions. You must shoot an arrow to choose a path, but be careful. If you choose the wrong one, you will be ambushed. If you choose the right one, however, you will be attacked by only one outlaw at a time instead of all at once. When you make it to the hideout, you will have a choice to enter from the front or the rear. Here you must remember what the boy at the bank told you about approaching the hideout. When you are outside the hideout, shoot the cow skull on the chimney to shoot the stack off. Then, as the outlaws come out of the door, shoot them but cease fire when the mayor comes out. After the mayor has been rescued, go into the hideout. After you shoot another outlaw inside, you will find a note from Mad Dog telling you to meet him in town. Between each of these sequences, you will sometimes be challenged to a showdown to see how fast you can draw. When you get back to town to save the mayor's daughter from Mad Dog, you will have to gun down a few more bandits before hand. When you meet Mad Dog at the final showdown, you must shoot him twice directly in the head; the first will stun him and the second will bring him down. Afterwards, the mayor, his daughter and the town will be saved and they'll thank you for it. VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Mad Dog McCree CensusThere are 10,986 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 8,808 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 147,196 machines (6,418 unique titles).Common - There are 21 known instances of this machine owned by Mad Dog McCree collectors who are active members. Of these, 10 of them are original dedicated machines, and 11 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Mad Dog McCree machine for sale. Wanted - There are 6 active VAPS members currently looking for Mad Dog McCree. This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 10 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
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In all honesty, Mad Dog McCree should have been left back in the arcades. While the arcade game was pretty nice looking, featuring stunning FMV (especially considering that in time period it came out in, FMV was a very new technology) and fast and furious arcade shooting, this PC version is the pits.For one thing, the FMV is very, very grainy. In no ways does it even come close to matching the arcade version's crisp and clear visuals.
In fact, the PC version is so bad looking that it's often difficult to see the bandits your trying to shoot. It's bad even for a 1993 game. So the visuals aren't that hot, but what about the rest of the game? Is it fast and fun like the arcade game? No, for one simple reason: the mouse.
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You see, in the arcade version, you got to use a handy-dandy gun to shoot the screen with. Well, on the PC version, you get to use your mouse and a cursor to point and click the bad guys. Where's the fun in this? Sure the mouse control is fine, but this game needs a light-gun to be fully realized. But the thing that makes this game beyond worthless is that it's a direct port of the arcade game. There's no new scenes, no new gunfights, nothing. It's exactly the same.
To those of you who are wondering why this is a bad thing, let me explain. See, arcade shooters of this type are notoriously short. They're arcade games, they need to be short.
After all, who want's to waste their tokens or quarters playing some long, involved epic game? They've got to be short so that people have a chance to beat them. But you see, Mad Dog McCree is probably the shortest arcade shooter of all time. If you know what you're doing, you can easily finish this game in about 15 minutes. And even if you don't know what you're doing, you'll beat it within an hour or two.
Some new scenes would have been nice, but it was just not meant to be.So there you have it. Mad Dog McCree is painfully short with terrible FMV and almost no sense of fun. The acting isn't even that great and the payoff for finishing the game is horrible. I'm sure any fan of the arcade game looking for a good, solid PC conversion will be extremely disappointed.Graphics: Mad Dog McCree is downright ugly thanks to the annoyingly grainy FMV. It's often difficult to tell who or what you're shooting at.or even SEE who or what you're shooting at.Sound: The sound is okay though there isn't much in this department. The guns sound like guns, and that's about it.
There are few uninspired western tunes that play at certain times, but it doesn't really detract from the game.Enjoyment: Looking at ugly, grainy FMV, point and clicking with my mouse to shoot varmints and finishing the game well under a half hour to be rewarded with a terrible ending isn't my idea of fun or enjoyment.Replay Value: Once you finish it, you've finished it for good. There's no reason to play it again.Mag Dog McCree and his gang have kidnapped the Mayor and his daughter, and its up to you to rescue them.
You must blast through bars and bank robberies to take the gang out and save everything you regard as good and true. Where the game differs from other Operation Wolf-influenced shoot-'em-ups is in the use of live video, with real people appearing on the screen before you shoot them down. You have unlimited continues with which to reach the end, so the actors will have their screen deaths seen by as many people as they would had they starred in a film.The PlayStation 3 version has re-mastered full-motion footage (720p), a new scoring system with leaderboards, and cooperative gameplay for up to four players. The Move peripheral is supported as a controller.